Representatives from more than a dozen labor unions and the private sector met with Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi Thursday to outline strategies to defend the Puerto Rico Investment Promotion Act and the American Jobs Act, both of which they claim could spur economic development for the island.
The global currents and economic challenges of the private sector, which have generated a sort of pessimism that focuses on only one part of the current reality, have significantly affected Puerto Rico’s manufacturing sector, Economic Development and Commerce Secretary José Pérez-Riera said.
In what may constitute as one of the most significant unions between the public and private sector in recent years, dozens of private sector and government officials gathered Tuesday to sign a memorandum of understanding to support the Luis Fortuño administration’s efforts to push the Puerto Rico Investment Promotion Act in Washington.
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